We live today in a visual culture where the body plays a dominant role. Mainly, this is an interest of aesthetics and identity. But, sometimes also of medicine. This visuality has its root in the period of the whole renaissance, modernity, the new era, etc,: 16th century. The main book in this phase was written by a certain Andreas Varselius, and had illustrations like this anatomical drawing.
Here, I used to think that: Hm... "Normal" people have denied and rejected disabled people for years!
But: Look at Versalius himself: One of the little people, probably suffering from hypochondroplasia - he was a man of "short stature" presumably with skeletal problems as well.
